Two Pillars of Patriarchy in Muslim Contexts: Gender Oppositionality Thesis and the Concept of Patriarchal Honour
Two Pillars of Patriarchy in Muslim Contexts: Gender Oppositionality Thesis and the Concept of Patriarchal Honour Dr.Adis Duderija The prevalence of patriarchal values and systems in the Muslim majority societies and cultures, both in the past and the present, have been identified and discussed from various perspectives, including the anthropological, sociological, cultural, political, legal, religious/theological, and historical by a number of scholars such as S. Joseph, D. Kandiyoti, K.Ali, A.Barlas, Z.M. Hosseini, L. Ahmed and N. Keddie to name the most prominent few. As someone who has been following academic debates on gender and religion for close to two decades (and publishing on them for over a decade), especially in relation to the Islamic tradition I have come to the conclusion that there are two theories/ concepts in particular in which patriarchal worldview is rooted in Muslim contexts . These are: 1. the theory of ‘gender oppositionality’ and